Your Privacy
Destination Orewa Beach (Mainstreet Orewa Inc; the Orewa business association) recognises the trust you are placing in us through your dealings with us. We are committed to the protection of your personal information. Our policies comply with our obligations under the National Privacy Principles that form part of the Privacy Act 1988 and are intended to protect your privacy in respect of any personal information that you may provide to us.
What information we collect and why
When entering competitions in Orewa, or entering online to subscribe to our e-news, you provide Destination Orewa Beach with your contact details. Destination Orewa Beach collects these details to contact competition winners and to inform you about upcoming events, activities and promotions in Orewa.
Upon your request, all information provided will be removed from our active database.
Security
All personal information collected by Destination Orewa Beach is held securely in a database on the company’s computer. The information collected in connection with this site is held by Destination Orewa Beach and is not submitted to any third party.
The database is protected by a firewall as well as host-based security. The data is not transmitted over the Internet once it has been stored in the database. Destination Orewa Beach does not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others. Destination Orewa Beach complies fully with the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007. We will not share, sell, rent, swap or authorise any third party to use your email address without your permission. If you feel you have received an email from us in error please contact orewa@orewabeach.co.nz
How you can unsubscribe from the Email Marketing service
You can choose to unsubscribe from our email newsletter at any time by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of the email. If at some future stage you choose to register to participate in a contest or promotion, your details will again be put onto our database to receive information from Destination Orewa Beach. If you do not wish to receive these emails you will need to unsubscribe again.
Right of access to your information
You have the right to update and correct your personal information held by us. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is up-to-date and complete. If you wish to update or correct your personal information held by us please email orewa@orewabeach.co.nz
Disclosing your information
No information is disclosed to a third party.
Changes to our privacy policy
This privacy policy relates to our current privacy standards. We may vary our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by publishing the latest policy from time to time at www.orewabeach.co.nz.
For further information regarding New Zealand Privacy Legislation go to www.privacy.org.nz
Junk mail or unsolicited email
You will only receive emails from Destination Orewa Beach if:
- You have subscribed to the Destination Orewa Beach e-news via the website
- Entered a competition/promotion online
- Entered a competition/promotion by completing an entry form which states that your email address will be entered onto our database.
- Brought tickets to Beach n Bites
Tips on sending us information
While we do all we can to guard your privacy, no data transfer over the Internet is 100% secure. When you share your information with us, it is at your own risk. There are ways you can help maintain the secrecy of your information:
- always close your browser when you have finished your user session
- ensure others cannot access your personal information and emails if you use a public computer.
If something goes wrong
Please contact us by email on orewa@orewabeach.co.nz or by phone on 09 426 2638 if you believe:
- someone has gained access to your personal information by mistake
- we have breached our privacy obligations or your privacy rights in any way
- you would like to discuss any issues about our privacy policy.
We will try to satisfy any privacy questions that you have and correct any errors on our part. This privacy policy relates to our current privacy standards. We may vary our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by publishing the latest policy from time to time on our site.